By Morgan Crump and Sophie Stewart | Posted: Tuesday April 4, 2017
We interviewed Mrs Gilmour. She is a Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour at Casebrook Intermediate School.
She was born in Hong Kong then moved to Christchurch the day before she turned one. She works at Casebrook as a RTLB (resource teacher of learning and behavior). She works with teachers, students, families and support agencies. She loves working with students to help them find ways through problems. She is based here at Casebrook but works at five or six different schools around here, that ranges from high schools to area schools, primary to special schools.
She went to Westburn Primary School and following that Burnside High. After that she went to Canterbury University, and Canterbury Teachers College to do her undergraduate degree. She followed this up with a masters degree at Victoria University in Wellington. She studied a double major, psychology and history, and her master’s was on education.
When Mrs Gilmour was around thirteen to fifteen years old she went back to China. “China was quite different from New Zealand, it was scary but quite interesting” she answered. She is married and has three children. She said that the saddest thing that has happened to her was was losing her parents, they both passed away at Easter. They passed away between two to three days apart.
She looks up to Nelson Mandela because he stood up for his beliefs and everyone that helped others in the 2012 earthquake from police to locals.
She likes to go to the gym and has been going there for a long time, she also likes reading and mostly likes crime. She also loves traveling and watching sport with her husband.
We had a lovely time talking to Mrs Gilmour and it was really fun getting to know about her hobbies, her family and her childhood.
By Morgan Crump and Sophie Stewart